What's with all the GLOOM and DOOM threads?

[CatWoman]

I don't want to wade through all that negativity, but I have to in order to hide them.

I don't want to hear about Dems just lining up to throw themselves into the bottomless pit of minority status come Tuesday.

I just don't want to hear that crap.

And frankly, some of them border on gleefulness.

[Peacetrain]

1. Neither do I..!!!

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. They turn me off of reading much of General Discussion.

It's much nicer in Cooking & Baking!

[Cha]

7. Here's a positive one, g..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025743234

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. Thanks for it, Cha!

Love your pineapple-o-lantern.

[Cha]

12. Mahalo, sweetie! babylonsistah gave that to me last year and I saved it!

[greatauntoftriplets]

14. It's very appropriate...and I love pineapple.

[awoke_in_2003]

20. Just wait until I get over there...

Seriously, I ought to pop in and post a pic of the two racks of lamb I grilled for the wife on our anniversary.

[greatauntoftriplets]

21. Yum!

I love lamb, and grilled is especially good.

[awoke_in_2003]

22. I marinated in fresh finely chopped mint...

a couple cloves of garlic cut coarse, the juice of one lemon, and some extra virgin olive oil. Let it soak in that for a few hours, then on the grill 7 minutes rib side up, 7 down. I then wrapped it up in foil for 10 minutes. Came out a nice med. rare. It was my first time doing it, and I impressed myself. If it weren't so expensive, I would do it once a week.

[greatauntoftriplets]

23. Sounds wonderful.

[MineralMan]

3. They make you wonder, don't they?

Why post that stuff on the eve of an election, or near it? I have a theory, but I'm not going to describe it.

[Warpy]

10. It's the same one I have, I'll bet

but we'll have to wait until they get even clumsier.

[MineralMan]

11. Could well be...

[NBachers]

28. This is just the warm-up for 2016. What a pleasant little oasis DU will be then . . .

[KMOD]

18. In the lyrics of the Alan Parson Project

"I can read your mind"

I also won't say what the theory is, but I have the same one.

[JustAnotherGen]

52. I'm wondering what they'll do

On Wednesday if we wake up and the Senate is Democratic.

Especially with the election fraud uncovered in KY and Landrieu basically telling black people she will represent them if they get out and vote for her. I could be wrong - but I don't think those to are going to lose. And the recent fear tactic in Iowa - that could bring out some steely spined liberals and progressives who just want to punish Ernst for being an asshole.

[Journeyman]

4. For all the complaints here about the bias of the MSM, some can't do anything but parrot it . . .

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

41. The so called liberals in the media are so incredibly irresponsible. From Maddow to Maher...

...they have defeated the Democrats by depressing turnout with their "impending doom" prognosis. They are horrible for what they are doing, then turn around wonder why Democrats don't fight. Why should they when the liberals are telling them that they've already lost?!!?!?

[Cha]

5. I've noticed it too.. they're getting sucked into the corporatemediaville Giant Vacumn!

[LonePirate]

6. We may lose the Senate but we will reclaim some governorships

There will be good news on Tuesday night regardless of what happens in the Senate. Apart from Brown's win in CA, there was almost no good news on election night in 2010. Plus, 2016 is approaching and it is nothing but blue skies for us.

[RBInMaine]

27. If that happens it'll be very narrow. GOTV GOTV GOTV !!

[corkhead]

8. they are spending too much time listening to NPR, which is no longer our friend

I heard enough claptrap from them today to delete them from the buttons on my car radio.

[vadermike]

13. Senate etc

We may lose the senate but may gain a couple of gubernatorial races which is good , 2016 here we come !! I think we have a chance in 16 to not only take back the senate but make gains in the house as well with Hillary at the top of the ticket , I hope she has learned from 08 and from what the Presidentvhas gone thru and is aggressive and clobbers the shit out of the right wing !!!

[H2O Man]

15. Let's win on Tuesday.

If enough people get out and vote, there's no reason to lose.

Frankly speaking, I prefer victory.

[Liberal_in_LA]

35. plus 1000

[shenmue]

16. There are a lot of people here who play Dems

but are borderline libertarian. They should go and do that, if that's what they want.

[emulatorloo]

61. And there are some who play Dems but are Koch/Rove funded

[longship]

17. It happens every Halloween, ma'am.

I took in a nuclear apocalypse marathon on Friday.

On the Beach -- Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins.

Dr. Strangelove -- Mein Furher! I can walk!

Fail-Safe -- the live performed CBS remake of the 1962 film, damned good. (Richard Dreyfus, George Clooney, Harvey Keitel as Blackie, and a bunch of other good character actors, introduced by Walter Conkrite.) Appropriately broadcast in black and white.

The Day After -- another TV production. Jason Robards does okay in a rather soapy apocalypse.

Miracle Mile -- does anybody know where I can find a helicopter pilot? Pure camp with a Tangerine Dream soundtrack. The perfect end of a night of global death and mayhem.

Tonight I think I am going to watch Robert Wise's 1962 direction of The Haunting, one of the most cringe-worthy film ever made. "My god! Who was holding my hand?" A great cast, and it has Miss Moneypenny, too.

Have a spooky weekend, my friend.

[bvf]

33. Check out "Testament" if you haven't.

Jane Alexander, Lucas Haas and William Devane. Might make a good addition to your collection. Saw it years
ago and it tore my heart out.

[longship]

57. I have seen that one, just don't have it. nt

[jberryhill]

19. Here ya go...

I don't normally pay attention to popular music, but I like this one:

[KauaiK]

24. I agree.. Cantor is gone and McConnell is about to bite the dust

AND I don't know what the polls are saying but I think Wendy and good chance in Texas; Ditto Nunn in Georgia. The ONLY caveat I have is WHO counts the votes.

[malaise]

25. +1,000

Dems will be keeping the Senate

[BKH70041]

26. Sounds like a request for "See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil"

Good Luck!

[CatWoman]

30. and you sound like a request for me to tell you

to go jump in a fucking lake.

Good Luck!

Don't forget your scuba gear.

[BKH70041]

31. I haven't started any gloom and doom threads.

They're the ones you would rather take a swim. I'm warm, dry, and ain't going anywhere.

[CatWoman]

32. but you did come at me with a GLOOM and DOOM

response.

You need to take your own advice.

[still_one]

29. We will do the best we can, and regardless what happens the fight WILL continue. Ignore the media

rags and analysis, and focus on the fight.

[bettyellen]

34. "some of them border on gleefulness" YUP!

[bhikkhu]

36. PTSD from 2010...

I'm glad my state is staying blue, but I'm sorry for all the dumbf***ery elsewhere seems to perpetuate itself, against all good sense. Elections always make me wonder how so many people can fall for such idiotic campaigns and vote for such misanthropic dimwits. But then we move on, and things (such as they are) remain largely the same.

[riversedge]

51. I think you may be onto something with the PTSD--esp in WI...

I have been canvassing several times now--Dem, Mary Burke against Scott Walker. There is a real feel of hopelessness out there (sometimes I feel it myself--although now quite PTSD). But the trauma of 2010 with Russ Fiengold gone to a Teabagger Ron Johnson coupled with voting in all Republicans for our Senate and Assembly and GOV (our Supreme Court is now owned by #KOCH)--is very traumatizing. I had hopes until mid week when the last poll put Walker ahead by 7pts). They had been tied all summer. I still asked people to vote as I canvassed and I hope my 'down and out-ness' did not show

[spanone]

38. happens every election...media spouts doom & d.u. adds gloom

pfffft.

[mahina]

39. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025744699

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025744699

[CatWoman]

42. rec'd

[mahina]

43. Right?

[CatWoman]

45. ....

[Hekate]

48. Excellent. I knr'd it.

[mahina]

49. mahalos Hekate. I think the Mineral Man nailed it.

[blkmusclmachine]

40. Q: What's with all the GLOOM and DOOM threads?

A: There are many Third Way/"New Democrats" on DU. There's nothing more they'd like right now than to flip the Senate to the GOP on Tuesday.

[mahina]

46. +1

yep, sorry to have to agree.

[Shoonra]

44. TALKING TO OURSELVES

Yes, I hate the gloom and doom talk as well. I write this on the Saturday before Election Day and, frankly, the election is up in the air. A dozen (or a thousand) indicators but not altogether clear nor altogether relevant. The spread of cable TV and the internet has made many of the old reliable indicators obsolete.

One big mistake that I learned from bitter experience is partisans talking too much among themselves, each of them blowing sunshine up the other's bloomers. They have unrealistic (and usually over-optimistic) expectations that crash and burn in the reality of the ballot box numbers.

Among the various details I consider significant: (1) Too many (maybe most) Democratic candidates are trying to avoid any connection to Obama, and in some instances actually attacking him. Compare this with Republicans uniformly attacking him in the strongest possible terms. If I was presented with two candidates who both oppose Obama then wouldn't I opt for the one who was so much more enthusiastic about hating him?
(2) Democrats discussing the theoretical effect of the wisdom of avoiding a Republican majority in Congress, compared with Republicans declaring that voting Democratic will bring on the wrath of God.
(3) Complete obsfucation of the true present condition of the economy -- the Republicans lie about it and the Democrats cannot seem to explain it convincingly (and without being boring).
(4) Some potential voters have been so turned off by the nasty and negative campaigning that they have decided not to vote -- which, of course, plays into the hands of the people who have been the most nasty and negative.

I am going to vote on Tuesday. I will stand in the cold for maybe an hour. Other people aren't willing to do that - but they'll stand outside the Walmart all night on Thanksgiving to be the first to grab bargains on Black Friday.

[Hekate]

47. It really makes one wonder what their collective agenda is, doesn't it?

It pisses me off, but far worse, it degrades the tone and quality of DU. What exactly is their point? I don't want the individuals huffing and puffing about what "realists" they are, I want US to consider the implications of this collective doom and gloom all is lost oh woe is us message.

[cali]

50. I don't like to get my hopes up

or pretend that I think everything will turn out sunshine and roses for democrats this election. I'm hoping for the best, which as I see it is that we narrowly hold on to the Senate, but I'm preparing for the worst.

[demwing]

53. honestly, I think we're being Freeped

MANY of the Doom and Gloomers have very low post counts

[HereSince1628]

54. Nah, It's just the anticipatory anxiety dump

It happens every election, sometimes more sometimes less.

As is said about anxiety...better out than in, and so there is some purging.

[MADem]

56. +1 nt

[MADem]

55. I agree with you. nt

[underpants]

58. Eh, people might fight it but they reflect what is on the news regardless

The topis(s) of the day are always the topics of the day.

[librechik]

59. Repubs strutting around like they have already won.

it's very depressing. But not unexpected

[Skidmore]

60. Thank you! I agree but I strongly suspect

that we have some trolling on the left happening from nonDem groups too.